Desperate Housewives of ILX

When I get back, the kitchen floor will get washed LIKE WO.

I bought two beach-themed throw pillows for my living room: one has a blue octopus embroidered on it, and the other one will have red coral (when it arrives).

oh how fun! i love throw pillows. i am in need of some new ones, myself. where did you find yours?

overstock.com!

i totally need throw pillows! and fun ones like laurel's (which i saw in real life and it is Awesome)

oh dudes, i mean, housewives: when i got home last night at 4 o'clock in the morning after a long bus ride from NYC, after not being home for almost a week, I was sooo tired yet couldn't let the semi-disaster of my place go untouched... my friend had been feeding my cats but didn't do a great job of the cat litter scooping (hey, i understand), plus my bathroom had some construction things done to it and so was grimy from that. ended up cleaning cat litter, washing floor, cleaning kitchen sink and entire bathroom (including scrubbing tub/shower), just so i could wake up this morning and not have to deal with it!

Holy crap, that's a lot to do after a BUS RIDE. Robyn!

I don't know what came over me w/r/t the pillows, normally I hate throw pillows like on beds for a photo shoot, what the hell are you going to do w those when you want to actually SLEEP in the bed?? But I was just sitting at my desk thinking about my living room and something...snapped.

lol. like on that show, Snapped. except u resorted to throw pillows instead of a gun.

robyn, that sounds like a terror!

haha i know, eh? one of those things where i only fell asleep on the bus in the last 45-min of the trip but spent the previous 8 hours talking to my seat-mate (who ended up being awesome! a rarity!) and watching The Green Hornet (hilaire/ridic/kinda half-assed tbh?). so when i arrived home i was both discombobulated and buzzy-awake. also, i've just really been wanting to get my house in order in all ways...

throw pillows are pretty and fun and occasionally useful! i also think that their name should be taken literally, so thinking of them as a gun alternative is good! throw pillows not shoot guns!
wait.

i only have a couple throw pillows, acquired recently from the thrift store, with some pretty rad hand-embroidered tree-of-life floral embellishment on them. and they came with BIG BRIGHT TAGS certifying that they were FREE OF BEDBUGS, thank goodness for that.

thank goodness!

all my windows are open, it is lighly raining out right now, and it's friday

it is nice

i organized ryan's clothes yesterday - he had a bunch laid out in the bedroom that he cleared out of the closets. they are bagged and ready to give away. i also changed the linens and swept, so the bedroom is in order now.

I mowed the sump pump tube into pieces

that does not sound good

haven't played with this yet, but it looks totally fun!

http://urbanbarn.com/the-make-room

oooh!

also: i have decided to paint all our furniture varying shades of distressed pales, bc all this medium-to-dark wood is just too gloomy.

i believe that is a sign that teh west-coast assimilation is in its final stages

ha!

idk why i said 'pales' - i meant 'pastels'

we spent 2h45min washing and polishing the cars this afternoon. even scrubbed wheels and used tire cleaner. they are so pretty now! but i am exhausted!!! and omg i am so suburban :-\

ha! that sounds so good, tho. congratulation.

and then it rained overnight! boo

I should wash my truck one of these years.

tip for washing shower floor - put soap on the floor during your shower and do a crazy dance!

...and fall on your ass, breaking half of the bones on your body.

In your body, I mean.

I don't shower with erect men

OK, more for me then.

so i got the bucket out for cleaning. baby steps.

you shoul dget the bucket out for cleaning this thread which has quickly gone into the sexual gutter!!

my bff from new york is coming to visit july 1. now i have real motivation. this week/weekend: it's ON.

!! terrific

ryan will be out of town this weekend. i am planning on having some sort of surprise waiting for him when he gets back, but i'm not sure what it will be yet. something of the home improvement variety.

last night, i found a fucking cockroach in my cabinet! ONE cockroach. I am panicked, how can this happen? My house is so clean...WTF!

could it have come in from somewhere else?

yes - it does not necessarily mean you have an infestation. it is possible to only see one cockroach in your apartment, contrary to what people will tell you.

usually if you see one it was bred alrady and there are millions of eggs in your silverware drawer

I would die.

you would eat them

so we painted the bathroom, it looks really lovely - i feel a little more calm about the house now that this has happened, but there are still so many loose ends

we are doing a big salvation army pick up which should help, getting rid of clothes, books, and bags

I'm on hiatus from caring about this shit until fall. It's too hot and TOO DAMP to live in my apartment, I'm not dealing with the bathroom at the height of mildew season. I do look longingly at nicer apartments on the internets, but then I get home, drop off my office clothes, and leave on my bike for some other place, probably the beach. So fuck it.

i am the opposite in the summer. i hole up in the shade of my apartment, and keeping things clean is even more important to me. i feel like i am doing my spring cleaning only now.

Yeah, this is unusual for me, probably, but there are other reasons also. Anyway, I'm just saving up my nesting for fall, planning what colors to paint room and etc etc. Leaning toward Dutch Boy's "Empire State" grey, because it's not expensive paint and I don't need it to last a decade.

beautiful color. i tend to lean toward the same family of colors.

I was thinking of a softer grey with a tiny bit of lavender hint to it so it would make the evening light nicer, but honestly I need a neutral cool grey that makes no statements and goes with more things. So that was that.

I've got enough to worry about right now keeping the bugs at bay -- not cockroaches, just BUGS that are getting in from outside! Beetles, a water bug, some flies, lots of moths still, and, increasingly...THESE THINGS

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/images/hsepede.jpg

terrifying.

The good newa: I got a groupon for a maid cleaning!
The bad news: I used lysol to wipe that rust shit off the ceiling just a few weeks ago and IT'S BACK :(

the orange stuff? now, what is the deal with "shower spray" - u know the stuff u just spray on and leave after u shower

does it work?

it is a waste of $ ime

xp ha, i was just thinking about posting the same question!! i read somewhere recently that rubbing car wax on your stove top makes it easier to clean up mess.